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Dan Pfaff Lectures

Dan Pfaff about speed endurance, race distribution and much more<span...

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Warm-Up Protocol Prior to Worksets

By Ben PetersonCoaches always want to know exactly what weights the athletes are lifting and the progress that they are making. Being able to quantify results with actual data not only motivates the...

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Peaking with the Sport Back Squat

The main question I usually get asked in regards to the sport back squat is, "When do youincorporate this in a training program?" With the sport back squat, what you want to decide onsooner rather than...

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Biometric Tendo Unit Training

One of the unique advantages that a Tendo unit provides is that it gives athletes feedback on bar speed or velocity of power output so that they realize how hard they can train. The unique thing about...

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Proper Breathing for Sports Recovery

An often overlooked component of many programs is restoration and recovery. Coaches attempt to manipulate variables in their workouts, changing intensities, volume, and exercises in order to cause...

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Coaching the Squat for Taller Athletes

When teaching young athletes to squat, coaches need to remember that squatting isn't a “cookie cutter” exercise. Not everyone’s squatting form is going to look the same. This is especially true of...

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Recovery Protocols After Heavy Loading of the Posterior Chain

Inversion is a recovery method that helps by decompressing the spinal column and elongating the spinal discs. There is also some evidence that it can help with CNS recovery by decreasing the amount of...

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Using Isometrics to Build Strength in Power Lifts

Isometrics came into fame in the 1970s with the idea that they could build enormous strength. They soon fell out of popularity because in essence, isometrics don’t move and so are difficult to measure....

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Maximizing High Quality Reps with High Velocity Potentiation Clusters

Off-season, pre-season, or in-season Strength Coaches are always looking to maximize the number of high quality reps they can get in the weight room from their athletes.  A high quality rep is one done...

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Should All Athletes Squat the Same

The squat is considered a key exercise for athletes as well as fitness buffs. There is no questioning the fact that the squat is a great exercise and it is considered to be the king of all exercises....

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When Should You Initiate Weight Shift?

When you should drive off the rear leg to produce power in the swing is often debated. This applies to not only to the swing in golf but also to baseball, tennis and other sports in which you swing an...

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Role of Amino Acid Ingestion In Protein Synthesis, Muscular Recovery and...

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A Multidimensional Approach to Enhancing Recovery

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DEPTH JUMP VS DROP JUMP-Dr. Natalia Verkhoshansky

In sport training literature, the terms “Depth Jump” and “Drop Jump” are usually understood as synonyms and both of them are used to name the same exercise: a jump executed by droping from a height...

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The Importance of Complex Training in Developing Rate of Force Development...

It is no secret that athletes who are larger, stronger, faster and more powerful than their opponents have a higher success rate in sports competition. For most sports competition, however, it seems...

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Hockey (Pre-Season) Peaking Program (Block 5-Speed Strength)

Here is a peaking program for one of my hockey athletes I was fortunate enough to work with this summer (American Hockey League-Texas Stars). The program is a 4 day lift that emphasizes speed-strength...

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Cal Dietz - Advanced Principles in Programming presented at cvasps.com...

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Latest in Strength and Conditioning - ACSS 2013 Keynote Address - Robert Newton

Latest in Strength and Conditioning - ACSS 2013 Keynote Address - Robert Newton Part 1Latest in Strength and Conditioning - ACSS 2013 Keynote Address - Robert Newton Part 2Notes From Lectures

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Speed and Skill Optimization - A Proposal for a New Practice Paradigm

By Cal Dietz and Jonathon JanzIntroductionIt is often said that the best coaches of any sport know precisely when to push their athletes and when to take their foot off the throttle. Exceptions aside,...

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Parametric Biometric Method

Biometrics are variations of cybernetic programming, which were first invented in the Soviet Union. It essentially is a regulatory process used to figure out how much training and stress an organism...

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